About July 1
July 1, 2025 is the 182nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 231 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 69 –Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
- 1782 –American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1858 –Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1873 –Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 1881 –The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1935 –Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1959 –The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
- 1960 –Independence of Somalia.
- 1979 –Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 1980 –O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
- 1990 –German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
- 1991 –The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
- 1997 –China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
- 2003 –Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
- 2006 –The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People’s Republic of China.
- 2007 –Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
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